So, I was visiting youtube looking at Halo DS videos so I could say "god I wish that was real" again, but then I remembered another similar hoax made a few years before it, so I looked up everything I could on this lost hoax to dig up something. It was first posted on google video in early 2007, around January. It made waves around the internet, gaining interest quickly. Many people argued over if it was real, or fake. I see references pointing toward a 2006 video release, however. now since most videos are just the same guy playing the same rom, you could say it's fake. but there is one other person who played it. Now what I didn't mention before is that there was a download to this on megaupload, but since megaupload is gone, so is the file. The filename is halo_alpha.gba, not "halo_advanced.gba" as the creator says. the file is also compressed in a rar file, named halo_gba.rar. It may just be a fake emulator, though. I've been looking for it for AGES, never found anything since megaupload is dead. some people might still have it though.
Maybe read the part about Halo for GBA here: https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/b...xtable-is-in-the-house-my-hoax-history/79715/
we don't really know for sure, some say it's modded Goldeneye, but whether it be real or fake, I still want Halo DS to be dumped.
Again, its real in the sense that a company, N-Space if Im not mistaken (who later did the Megabloks Halo game), made it as a pitch / demo in the hope for more.
So you're saying that they made the thing shown in that IGN video? I remember searching for Halo homebrews every day on GBATemp, and I did come across a fair few really shitty DS ones. In fact, I may still have them saved on one of my old computers, I should dig them out and re-upload them. I remember there being some kind of dedicated GBATemp downloads section (maybe on sourceforge or something?) but can't find it now, so it's likely that these things aren't available for download anymore. I even got a few odd online multiplayer Halo homebrews for my iPod Touch 2nd generation, back when that thing was new. They're long gone though.
Most likely it was done by N-Space I think. But it was certainly done by a professional studio as a pitch.
I remember downloading and playing around with this years ago. After a quick search it turns out I still had it in an old drive archive. So, your search is over: https://mega.nz/#!gWISWA5L!S6TALbWqBgfqBFdCnGZCzRjPKlrG1fDzpsj0Q7hrlWo As for what it actually is, it's a standalone Multimedia Fusion game mimicking VisualBoyAdvance with a dummy file acting as the ROM. As the game's creator points out in the link sanni posted, you can have it "open" any file with a .gba extension and it'll act like you loaded the Halo ROM. The menus are all phony with some amusing jokes hidden in the drop-down options. The GBA start-up animation is stored separately as an AVI file (note the really ropey sound emulation!) and the music as MP3s. There's two extra songs included in the RAR that aren't used in-game. The modification dates on the archived files give some indication of when everything was created. The main files (excluding the Multimedia Fusion runtime DLLs) were all modified between January 11th and 13th of 2006, with the two extra music files having been modified on January 17th of 2007--I'd assume the game's creator released it publicly roughly a year after uploading the video, and threw those in as a bonus. This doesn't quite jive with the timeline he gives in his GiantBomb blog, but details inevitably end up confused so many years after the fact. For reference, the modification date on my copy of the RAR is January 17th, 2007 at 4:32:02PM, which would seem to be when I downloaded it. It was in a folder called 4chan and the files around it seem mostly /v/ oriented, so I can only assume that's where I downloaded it from. Shame I didn't think to archive the thread itself as that really would've brought everything full circle, haha.
